Authorities say Robin Arwood, 42, collected sensitive information not available to the public about search warrants and confidential informants that made its way to a suspected methamphetamine dealer via his girlfriend.

Arwood was arrested this week at her Pueblo home and faces a charge of first-degree official misconduct, a misdemeanor.

According to the Pueblo Chieftain, Arwood was a clerk for Magistrate Clinton Smith. She is accused of relaying information about a search warrant detectives planned to execute at a home belonging to the accused meth dealer’s mother.

These are disturbing accusations, and we hope authorities get to the bottom of them.

Thank goodness they were able to work together in this emergency to rescue the pair.

The mother suffered serious injuries, but the child, a 2-year-old girl had just cuts on her head and legs. Twin boys, age 4, also were with the mother, but neither was seriously injured. Authorities said none of the injuries was life-threatening.

The accident happened about 6:25 p.m., as the group was crossing in the 14200 block of East Exposition Avenue, near a Walmart. They weren’t in a crosswalk or using a pedestrian signal.

It’s an unfortunate accident, but one that is a good reminder about the importance of using crosswalks, particularly at night and in busy commercial areas.

In a dozen years in Denver, at least 677 homeless have died. Average age: 46. Twenty froze to death. Another 275 died from drugs, alcohol or some combination.

The statistics come out of a story written by Post reporter Kirk Mitchell, who examined records kept by the Denver coroner’s office and presented a picture of how difficult life — and death — is for some of the city’s most troubled residents.

Given the circumstances faced by people who live on the street, it’s not necessarily surprising that so many would die as a result of drugs, alcohol, fights and even as victims of homicide.

With police statements that 13-year-old Dylan Redwine did not run away, the prospects in the case of the boy who went missing Nov. 19 from his father’s home near Vallecito took a turn for the worse.

Authorities said Dylan has a habit of staying in touch with family and friends, and the lack of activity on his cellphone in combination with the length of time he has been gone contribute to their conclusion that he didn’t run away, according to the Durango Herald.

Dylan, visiting his father under court order, is from Colorado Springs, where he lives with his mother. Since his father called police to report Dylan missing, law enforcement officers have gone door-to-door, seeking information. They have used dive teams to search a nearby reservoir and have brought cadaver dogs out to search the area.

Still nothing. Like many from the community, we hope for his safe recovery but fear the worst.

What is it about natural disasters that brings out the foolish bravado in some?

That question came to mind as we read a tale about two guys who decided to arm themselves with whiskey sours and raft a raging river during superstorm Sandy to get to… Walmart.

The Maryland men, Marvin Lee Kingsbury and Charles Kent Bowers, did not die. That’s probably the result of them at least having the sense to wear life jackets. But they did have to be rescued from trees they were clinging to after their raft — fortified with plywood and swim noodles — capsized.

When it was all said and done, the men were unrepentant. The only thing they’d do differently was to use a “better boat.”

When New York does something, the city has a reputation for doing it bigger and better than anywhere else.

That reputation apparently also extends to screw-ups.

How else to explain how confidential police records ended up as confetti raining down Thanksgiving Day parade watchers?

One parade goer told PIX11 television news that he saw what looked like a social security number on a scrap of paper on his friend’s coat. Other scraps contained details about GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign motorcade.

Casey Anthony, with her attorney Jose Baez, after being acquitted of murder in 2011 in the death of her daughter Caylee. (Orlando Sentinel file)

Can it be true that detectives investigating the disappearance of a 2-year-old girl overlooked a particular web browser when examining recent search searches on a computer used by the girl’s mother?

News broke recently that detectives examining a computer used by Casey Anthony looked at Internet Explorer for recent searches but not Firefox. The Firefox browser had been used to look up fool-proof suffocation methods.

Chilling.

Casey Anthony was acquitted in 2011 of the murder of her daughter, Caylee, whose decomposed body was found in a field six months after she disappeared.

It’s unfortunate that prosecutors never had this evidence to use in making a case.

About 2 a.m., Rosa appeared on a neighbor’s doorstep only partially clothed, banging on the door and calling out for help. The neighbor called 911.

The neighbor called again, 40 minutes later, to ask if police were coming. It wasn’t until 3:10 a.m. that the neighbor saw police checking out the area. And it took until 8:15 a.m., when the husband called police, that authorities found Rosa’s body. They arrested the husband, Christopher Perea, on suspicion of first degree murder.

We hope the court proceedings and internal affairs probe brings justice to this tragic situation.

Vincent Carroll is The Denver Post's editorial page editor. He has been writing commentary on politics and public policy in Colorado since 1982 and was originally with the Rocky Mountain News, where he was also editor of the editorial pages until that newspaper gave up the ghost in 2009.

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